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Schwarts, Gil ORCID: 0000-0002-8096-236X, Elbaum-Cohen, Avital, Pohler, Birte, Prediger, Susanne ORCID: 0000-0001-6541-259X, Arcavi, Abraham and Karsenty, Ronnie (2023). The servants of two discourses: how novice facilitators draw on their mathematics teaching experience. Educ. Stud. Math., 112 (2). S. 247 - 267. DORDRECHT: SPRINGER. ISSN 1573-0816

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Abstract

Professional development (PD) courses are the main context for mathematics teachers' lifelong learning. Leaders with expertise are needed to facilitate these courses; thus, there is a growing interest in understanding the nature of this profession, its core practices, and the challenges it entails. This paper focuses on a specific group of facilitators: experienced mathematics teachers who have just begun facilitating PD courses in addition to their classroom teaching. To better understand these novice facilitators' practices, a commognitive approach was implemented to examine how they draw on their mathematics teaching experience when leading PD courses. In commognitive terms, these practitioners draw on multiple professional discourses, but mostly on the discourses of teaching and facilitation. The analysis of the challenges and affordances associated with participating in these two professional discourses showed that novice facilitators bring into play their teaching practices in four distinct ways: enacting a familiar practice, negating a familiar practice, questioning the relevance of a familiar practice, and generating a new practice based on their teaching experience. We claim that novice facilitators' well-established identity as teachers is both a challenge and an asset in grounding successful facilitation practices. Overall, facilitators modify their teaching experience through the adoption, adaptation, and retraction of their teaching practices. Implications for the preparation and support of facilitators, within processes of upscaling PD programs, are discussed.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schwarts, Gil UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-8096-236X UNSPECIFIED Elbaum-Cohen, Avital UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Pohler, Birte UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Prediger, Susanne UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6541-259X UNSPECIFIED Arcavi, Abraham UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Karsenty, Ronnie UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-678157
DOI:	10.1007/s10649-022-10182-0
Journal or Publication Title:	Educ. Stud. Math.
Volume:	112
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 247 - 267
Date:	2023
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Place of Publication:	DORDRECHT
ISSN:	1573-0816
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PROFESSIONAL-DEVELOPMENT; TRANSITION; KNOWLEDGE; ROUTINES; EDUCATOR Multiple languages Education & Educational Research Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/67815